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Topic: GREED (avarice, particularly for wealth and things) (01/22/15)
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TITLE: The short end of the stick | Previous Challenge Entry
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Uttering a very low guttural growl, Snavely glared sharply at Andre’ the French Poodle . With all of his teeth showing, his Snout looking like an accordion, Snavely presented a frightful picture to the gathering crowd.
Someone in the group yelled out, “Get the bone, Andre’, get the bone. He’s just a bully , he won’t hurt you.”
Between the two hungry dogs, lay a giant leg bone. Fritz the butcher, had thrown the bone out for Andre’ to enjoy. Andre’ had been the recipient of these delightful morsels for about four weeks. Andre’ had wandered in, hungry and disheveled, to Fritz’s butchers shop. Fritz, feeling sorry for the poor dog, gave him some mouth watering bones. This became a regular ritual with Andre’, until Snavely, the junk yard dog found out that Fritz was feeding the stranger. Well, that just couldn’t happen!
Snavely , ran over to the butcher shop to see for himself. His big feet made a loud plopping sound on the sidewalk as he ran. Seeing the frightened little Andre’, Snavely skidded to a stop. With saliva dripping out of the corners of his mouth, big teeth glowing, and a growl that would scare off any defender, Snavely grabbed the bone and ran back to the junkyard.
Snavely was not hungry, but no sniveling little dog was going to get
a better bone than he received. This routine continued day after day. Andre’ was not getting any bones, and Snavely got them all. The bully took each bone and buried it somewhere in the junkyard. He must have buried at least 30 bones. He wouldn’t be able to eat all of them, but he knew that Andre’ wouldn’t get any either.
Poor little Andre’ was getting quite hungry by now. Fritz, the butcher didn’t seem to notice that the junkyard dog was getting all the food and that Andre’ was getting nothing.
One frightfully windy and frigid day, a very nice well-dressed lady drove up in her car to Fritz’s butcher shop. As she exited her fancy
automobile, she noticed poor little Andre’, shivering, all curled up in a ball in front of the butcher shop. He looked as though he had tears in his eyes. The lady was so taken with his sadness, that she stopped and petted Andre’, then picked him up, cuddling him in her arms.
To Andre’ this was like an angel who had come to rescue Andre’ from the grip of the blistering cold and that mean greedy dog – Snavely! The lady was warm and smelled so good.
Taking Andre’ into Fritz’s shop she spoke in a very kind and sweet voice, “Sir, would you please cut a nice piece of steak for this poor little dog?”
So Fritz did as she asked. Andre’ jumped from her arms to the ground and began eating voraciously on that piece of meat.
Oh, oh here comes Snavely, mouth drooling and snarling. He was going to take that piece of meat away from Andre’ right in front of the nice lady. What nerve!
To Snavely’s surprise, the lady took her walking stick and started hitting him on the rear end. Snavely was so upset that he lost his appetite, and ran off.
Andre’ finished his steak in peace and quiet. The nice lady gave the butcher enough money to feed Andre’ some steak every day and to make sure that Snavely had a small bone so that he wouldn’t eat Andre’s
food.
The moral of this story is “Greed gets you nothing but the short end of the stick.”
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Great job!
Parents might have to explain what greed was and what it meant the "short end of the stick" but you have done a nice job.